The game takes place in Sanctuary, the dark fantasy world of the Diablo series. This world was saved twenty years prior by a handful of unnamed heroes in Diablo II. Warriors who, having survived the onslaught brought by the armies of the Burning Hells, have gone mad from their ordeals. It is up to a new generation of heroes to face the forces of evil threatening the world of Sanctuary.Players will have the opportunity to explore familiar settings such as Tristram.

Diablo III is similar in style to its predecessor, Diablo II. The proprietary engine will incorporate Blizzard's custom in-house physics, a change from the original usage of Havok's physics engine,[9]and feature destructible environments with an in-game damage effect. The developers are aiming to make the game run on a wide range of systems, and have stated that DirectX 10 will not be required.[10]Diablo III will use a custom 3D game engine[11] in order to present an overhead view to the player, in a somewhat similar way to the isometric view used in previous games in the series.[10]Enemies will utilize the 3D environment as well, in ways such as crawling up the side of a wall from the depths into the combat area.[5]

As in Diablo II, multiplayer games will be possible using Blizzard's Battle.net service,[12] with many of the new features developed for StarCraft II also available in Diablo III.[10] Players will be able to drop in and out of sessions of co-operative play with others.[13]

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Posted 04 January 2012 - 11:59 AM

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The SK RMAH issue is for sure at least one of the reasons D3 got delayed. There are a lot of facts that support this theory (as shown by Daeity in his posts) and Blizzard should really just admit it that it is one of the main reasons they pushed D3's release into 2012.

As for when we'll get a launch date, there's a small chance our wait might end this week. Depends on the response they get from the SK review board. That's probably why they keep postponing the D3 15 year celebrations.

Posted 15 March 2012 - 04:01 PM

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About damn time.

Went down pretty much how I predicted in the CeBIT article. I actually said they usually announce the release dates 2 months before the actual launch, but I definitely wasn't expecting the difference to be EXACTLY 2 months. Can't help wonder if they delayed the announcement for this.

Posted 18 May 2012 - 10:53 AM

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I'm absolutely loving it! Best game I've played in quite a while.

About the article, I think it's a little (or maybe a lot) over the top. All his points are basically saying the same thing, just in a different way. It is entertaining to read though, like many cracked articles.

Sure, the launch had many problems and basically all the disadvantages of having an online-only game came out to the surface, but 90% of these are already gone, after just a few days. I've had no errors yesterday, and I've played like 6 hours.

All this is irrelevant though. The important thing to consider is what online-only brings feature wise. Is it worth it? I think it definitely is. I love chatting while playing, I love having an AH, the incredibly easy to setup co-op mode and all the b.net integration (that is pretty small right now, but it's going to grow, starting with the upcoming armory, the evolution of BattleTag, etc.). All this comes against what? Not being able to name your character fucknuts? Cmon..

Posted 20 May 2012 - 08:03 PM

Draykorinee

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I always wanted an updated D2!! Unfortunately Thats what I got, D2 but nicer looking, its not exactly an evolution. It is however a blast, it is certainly filling that spot I have while waiting for MoP and anymore Titan news. Playing a WD only level 25 and act 3 but hada mental few weeks so no free time.

Posted 21 May 2012 - 02:45 AM

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I always wanted an updated D2!! Unfortunately Thats what I got, D2 but nicer looking, its not exactly an evolution.

I think the future expansion will focus on bringing innovation to the game. The original D3 though focuses on capturing the Diablo feel, fixing some mechanics that didn't function that well in D2 and also adding small improvements here and there. I think it's exactly what they needed to do.

If they would have tried too much to innovate the series, many D2 fans would have been really upset and the new game might have been truly new but maybe not as much fun. With this launch they built themselves a strong base and because of it they'll be able to explore some new stuff in the next expansions. That's how I see it at least.

I think this way of thinking is already showing in SC2. The original game stayed even closer to its predecessor that D3 is, but HotS is already looking to shake things up with the completely new Arcade system (that I think will be huge) and in multiplayer with some never-before-seen units that are pretty daring. They've also just announced some B.NET improvements that are not exactly innovations, but they're definitely important steps in evolving the SC platform.

Posted 25 May 2012 - 06:50 AM

Falloubst

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I've started playing it yesterday as a Monk. Man, this game is fun. It almost feels like the first time played WoW. Its atmosphere really sucks me in. Since I used to be a WoW addict, I'm careful playing D III now.

It feels different than D II, it's more fluent, doesn't requiere a lot of thinking and is still a lot of fun IMHO.

Posted 31 May 2012 - 06:20 PM

I think I'm done with Diablo 3. Right now, I unfortunately got limited time playing games. Within the last days, I tried to log in several times -- without success.

Either the servers were down because of planned maintenance (which is okay) or they weren't working because of... well... too heavy "population"? ATM I'm trying to log in - still getting errors that servers are too busy.

Well... Seems like I've got to give Diablo 3 some more weeks to work properly. Man, I miss the times when you could pop in a gaming cartridge into your Super Nintendo and just start playing.

But what I've seen so far in D3 looks fun. The combat feels absolutely fluent - much more fluent than D2's combat. But on the other hand side it feels less compelling; I miss stat points, scrolls of identification... It's a great game though; just a little too linear IMHO. But that linearity makes D3 a perfect game for in between (assuming that servers are operating properly).